Width Quotes

• Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Assessment, Length, Just Live

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• A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  "Steven Wright Special". Comedy, 1985.

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• The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Dark, Reality, Ideas

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• Width of life is more important than length of life.

  Avicenna

  Length Of Life, Important, Life Is

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• The other day, I was walking my dog around my building . . . on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

  Steven Wright

  Dog, People, Ledges

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• The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.

  Hans Hofmann

  Wall, Ideas, Space

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.60, MIT Press

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dna, Cells, Two

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.71, Penguin

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• Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Bodybuilding, Pull Ups, Size

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• According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

  Roy H. Williams

  Ocean, Space, Depth

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• Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.

  Pope Pius XII

  Two, Arms, Knees

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• Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Science, Hair

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• When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. Because it is impossible to portray the full width and breadth of everything that you are up against.

  Simon Norfolk

  Photography, War, Stupid

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• Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.

  Dorian Yates

  Bodybuilding, Make Or Break, Requirements

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• God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Max Lucado (2007). “Book of Ephesians: Where You Belong”, p.59, Harper Collins

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• Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

  Paul McEuen

  Dna, Ideas, Molecules

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• The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Depth, Christ

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• Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Two

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.449, Stanford University Press

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• Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

  George M. Whitesides

  Atoms, Demand, Electronics

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• Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Peace, Self, Personality

  Alfred North Whitehead (1966). “Adventure of ideas”

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• It's not how many followers you have, it's how many care. It's not width, it's depth. It's not how many impressions you get, it's how much attention you get.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Depth, Attention, Followers

  "Why Snapchat Is The Best Marketing Tool You Can Use Right Now" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2013.

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• But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.

  George MacDonald

  Inspire, Feelings, Age

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• Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Player, Average

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• A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

  Herb Caen

  Dream, Cities, Vision

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.

  Jim Michaels

  Wind, Feet, Logging

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